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Yes, but the commercial dog foods with high grain content – especially the dry, pelleted foods like Poncho seems to get – contribute hugely to dog obesity.

Domesticated dogs are scavenging camp followers and seem to do best on a mixed diet of all types of natural food that humans may consume or discard. We have fed all our dogs largely on home-cooked food containing a mix of meat, vegetables, grains (pasta etc.) and pretty much leftover human foods from the refrigerator, pantry etc. Never dry foods.

We currently have dogs 4 and 5 since we set up home here 30 years ago. Our longest-living dog made it to within 3 months of her 16th birthday and our shortest-living was just under 14 years. We have had 2 of the leanest and fittest Labradors in the neighbourhood.

Google “raw meat diet for dogs”. Or cats. Grains are bad enough for humans, let alone carnivores. If you’re really lucky you’ll find a local farmer who makes pet food from grass fed beef but the odds are against you. Grains get taxpayer subsidies, making industrial food-like products appear to be cheap.

About Pooch Cafe

Pooch Café is the story of a cheese-loving, squirrel-fearing, kibble-desiring, break-dancing, toilet-drinking mutt named Poncho. Dogs, like certain barflies, want to go where everybody knows their name (other than the vet’s office.) So they gather at the Pooch Café to compare notes on such weighty issues as avoiding baths, zebra-flavored kibble, toilet breath, and the construction of a giant catapult with which to hurl all the Earth’s cats into the sun. Don’t look for it out on the main street -- its actual location is a canine top secret that was only compromised that one time they got a pizza delivered.